Head of Product

Company Description

We are ambitious! We must be, with 2.9 million regular customers. We continuously improve our platform to offer our 600,000 daily visitors a personalized and inspiring shopping experience. With over 100 tech colleagues we work on offering a relevant assortment at the right time. For this we use many technologies, like microservices in containers and function as a service. We also collect a load of data that we use to train our machine learning algorithms. The good news is: we’re hiring!

Job Description

We are looking for a strategic Head of Product (Directors role). You will manage the Product Team responsible for the shop, website and app (basically everything the customer experiences, except for the items we feature). The Product Team is the connection between the customer and the technical specialists who built the shop. The team takes customer inputs, market developments and a fair dose of creativity to design the optimal architecture of the shop.

This key, strategic role is crucial in both forming and shaping Wehkamp Retail Group digital strategy and then delivering the strategic goals of the business through a team of Product Owners working with WRG’s world class Tech Hub.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Lead, develop and inspire the team;
• Responsible for the entire overall product strategy of Wehkamp (entire shop on web and app);
• Build the product roadmap and agree prioritization across the organization;
• Strengthen the organizational product capability;
• Disrupt & challenge our current ways of thinking and operating;
• Be fully up-to-date on leading technologies and lead innovation at Wehkamp Retail Group;
• Work very closely with the Tech Hub to deliver the product roadmap.

Qualifications

You:

• have passion for creating strategy and delivering business value;
• have experience of working at C-level within a retail or similar business is key;
• have the ability to form and influence products that customers love and that makes the business more efficient;
• are An excellent leader;
• have the gravitas required to operate at board level on a daily basis.

What we offer:

You become part of the Wehkamp Tech Hub. Working at the Tech Hub means working in an innovative and inspiring high-tech working environment. In our new head office, the Wehkamp Tech Hub has its own environment with plenty of room for collaboration, learning from each other and presenting results.

Please check out: https://medium.com/wehkamp-techblog

Other benefits

• Possibility to work mostly remote;
• Salary appropriate to your position;
• 10.5% holiday allowance;
• Bonus;
• 30 holiday days;
• Profit sharing;
• Onsite gym;
• Pension scheme;
• Discounts on health insurance;
• Room for growth;
• Staff discount on almost the entire range of Wehkamp & Kleertjes.com.

Additional Information

The process for this vacancy is as following: 

1. Do your expectations and our wishes match? Then we will invite you to a (video) call with the recruiter.
2. First interview with the hiring manager and tech lead, this will focus on the cultural and technical fit. 
3. If that is positive we’ll move on to a case or technical assessment, based on this you’ll have the second interview. 

We strive to give feedback as soon as possible.